Current Events – April 2013 - National Current Events

03. President passes tough anti-rape bill, which provides
for upto life-term or death to rape convicts.

06. Indian Naval Lieutenant Commander Abhilash Tomy becomes
the first Indian to circumnavigate the globe in a sailboat, solo, non-stop and
unassisted.

07. Nine placed in police custody over the Thane building
crash, Maharashtra's worst ever building crash.

09. Five Indian peacekeepers including a lieutenant colonel
killed by rebels in South Sudan while escorting a UN convoy - Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, given a red-carpet welcome in Germany.

11. Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth Srinivasan is
picked to become the first South Asian judge in a U.S. appeals court - Sheikh
Mohammad Bin Rashid AI Maktoum, UAE's Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, accords warm welcome to Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy - The
Board of Directors of the Kochi Smart City Project meeting in Dubai decides to
start construction work of the first stage.

14. India and Germany to jointly intensify efforts to gain
permanent membership in the UN Security Council and seek broader reforms of the
world body.

16. New revelations about Narendra Modi's role in the 2002
Gujarat communal clashes are likely to be a setback to his Prime Ministerial
ambitions.

17. Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt granted 4 weeks by the
Supreme Court to complete his films before serving the jail term for a 1993
weapons conviction.

21. SNC lavlin, the Canadian engineering company that caused
a controversy in Kerala, has been blacklisted by the World Bank - India's
mathematics prodigy and astrologer Shankuntala Devi, dubbed 'human computer' passes away at 83.

22. Parliament proceedings disrupted on the issue of the
leakage of draft JPC report on 2G spectrum.